The Therapist at Work: Personal Factors Affecting the Analytic Process

183 Pages·2004·1.07 MB·English

by  Dimitris Anastasopoulos, Evangelos Papanicolaou (eds.)

THE THERAPIST AT WORK
The EFPP Series
Editor-in-Chief: John Tsiantis
Associate Editors: Brian Martindale (Adult Section)
Didier Houzel (Child & Adolescent Section)
Alessandro Bruni (Group Section)
OTHER TITLES IN THE SERIES
• Countertransference in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with
Children and Adolescents
• Supervision and Its Vicissitudes
• Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Institutional Settings
• Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of the Severely Disturbed
Adolescent
• Work with Parents: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Children
and Adolescents
• Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy: The Controversies and the
Future
• Research on Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Adults
THE THERAPIST AT WORK
Personal Factors Affecting
the Analytic Process
Edited by
Dimitris Anastasopoulos
Senior Editor
and
Evagelos Papanicolaou
Foreword by
Paul Williams
published by
KARNAC
for
The European Federation
for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
in the Public Health Services
and
The Cyprus Association
for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Studies
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vii
EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS ix
INTRODUCTION
Dimitris Anastasopoulos xiii
FOREWORD
Paul Williams xxv
CHAPTER ONE
The analyst’s clinical theory and its impact
on the analytic process in psychoanalytic psychotherapy
Joachim Küchenhoff 1
CHAPTER TWO
A different perspective on the therapeutic process:
the impact of the patient on the analyst
Judy L. Kantrowitz 17
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CHAPTER THREE
Knowing and being known
Christos Ioannidis 43
CHAPTER FOUR
How does psychoanalysis work?
Imre Szecsödy 53
CHAPTER FIVE
Intersubjective phenomena and emotional exchange:
new considerations regarding transference
and countertransference
Gisela Zeller-Steinbrich 63
CHAPTER SIX
Constructing therapeutic alliance:
the psychoanalyst’s influence on the collaborative process
Maria Ponsi 83
CHAPTER SEVEN
The therapist is dreaming:
the effect of the therapist’s dreams on the therapeutic process
Gila Ofer 95
CHAPTER EIGHT
The healing work
of a practising psychoanalyst/psychotherapist
Claude Smadja 109
REFERENCES 129
INDEX 145
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
s the senior editor of this Monograph, I want to thank
foremost all the contributing authors for kindly accepting
Ato offer their high-quality papers. I want to express my
gratitude to Dr John Tsiantis for his constant encouragement and
help through the preparation of this book. I am also deeply in-
debted to my colleague and co-editor Dr Evagelos Papanicolaou—
who was also a co-chairman and the soul of the Cyprus Conference
of October 2000—for his persistent help and collaboration.
Of course, this book owes a lot to the Cyprus Association for
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Studies and to all my friends and
colleagues there, without whom it would not have been possible to
carry through the preparation of this Monograph.
From this place I also want to thank Karnac publications which,
under new management, are standing by the side of the EFPP and
are continuing the Monograph Series.
Last, but not least, I want to thank Miss P. Nikolaidou, secretary
of HIPP, for her consistent, kind, and effective help in the collection
of the material.
Dimitris Anastasopoulos
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EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS
DIMITRIS ANASTASOPOULOS [Greece], MD, is an Adult and Child Psy-
chiatrist working in Athens. He trained in adolescent psychiatry
and psychotherapy at the Tavistock Clinic, London, and is a train-
ing psychotherapist for adult and adolescent psychotherapists in
Greece. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Hellenic
Association of Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psycho-
therapy (HACAPP). He is vice-chairman of the EFPP.
CHRISTOS IOANNIDIS [United Kingdom], MD, is a psychiatrist and
a member of the Tavistock Society of Psychotherapists and the
Group Analytic Society (London). He worked until recently as
Consultant Psychotherapist in St. Albans Hospital and has now
returned to Greece.
JUDY L. KANTROWITZ [United States] is a Training and Supervising
Analyst at Boston Psychoanalytic Institute and an Associate Profes-
sor at Harvard Medical School (part-time faculty). She is the author
of The Patient’s Impact on the Analyst and of papers on the patient–
analyst match, clinical impasses, supervision, and outcome of psy-
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